Ongoing and Future Work - Roadmap 2011
Release 6.1
- Gecode Interface
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An integration of the Gecode external constraint solver
library (www.gecode.org).
- Improved Propagator Support
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Revision of the suspension facilities and the priority system, making
propagators more efficient and easier to write, plus supporting libraries.
- New Global Constraints
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New arc-consistent versions in library(ic_global_gac):
global cardinality, 2-D versions of gcc and
alldifferent, same, sequence, inverse.
Also more efficient table constraints.
- Development Tools
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Search annotations and search tree display.
Other Ongoing Development Activities
- Online ECLiPSe Course
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being developed by Helmut Simonis, 4C.
Envisaged to become available about May 2009.
- Development and Visualisation Environment
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Work on Saros (ECLiPSe/Eclipse integration) at 4C.
- Generalised Propagation
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Work on more general propagation facilities,
including a new incarnation of lib(propia).
Your Contributions
- Are you doing work with ECLiPSe that might be of interest to other users?
- Have you thought about contributing it as a library under ECLiPSe's
open source licence?
- Alternatively, you could make it available yourself and let us know
about it!
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developers